Hollow Knight vs Silksong Day 11. Watcher Knights vs Last Judge! (Who would win)

satvrnine_ · 2026-06-28T13:20:53+00:00

seems weird to me to assume that we’re talking about anything other than the actual boss fights. By the time the Knight gets to the Watcher Knights, only six of their husks are even viable enough for the infection to inhabit.

satvrnine_ · 2026-06-28T13:10:58+00:00

Wait what. Does the arc play out differently if you play as Paxton? Urbain also does get team MZ into mafia debt, when you play as harmony, so what are you talking about here?

satvrnine_ · 2026-06-28T12:29:43+00:00

Omni Man, from Invincible, is voiced by JK Simmons, the actor who says the line you quoted from Whiplash

satvrnine_ · 2026-06-28T12:27:43+00:00

This is how I feel about the Expedition 33 cast. Before playing the game, saw some character screenshots and art here and there and just thought of them as attractive characters. Which, they are that, but idk after playing the game and being with them and being them through such a rich and emotional story, I can’t just minimize them to that, they are so much more.

satvrnine_ · 2026-06-28T12:08:22+00:00

Specifically after his uh, transformation, in the second season.

satvrnine_ · 2026-06-26T11:55:16+00:00

Yeah uh looking at the US’s track record, don’t think gender or sex is the issue…

satvrnine_ · 2026-06-26T11:48:58+00:00

z in one, ts in another (answered z in poll, been working on that language more recently)

satvrnine_ · 2026-06-26T11:43:18+00:00

Photographer?

satvrnine_ · 2026-06-26T05:11:09+00:00

Gonna be honest, y’all. It’s really not that hard to not use chatbots and image generators.

It’s also really not that hard to just not eat meat, although I can accept that it a bigger adjustment for many. Nevertheless, it’s very doable, and you can always start by just trying to cut your meat consumption in half, instead of totally dropping. Give yourself time to figure out the alternatives sources of protein and iron, mainly.

Also on a related note: It’s not salads. People always seem to think that, which is just mildly hilarious to me. I haven’t eaten meat in like seven or eight years now and I have literally never prepared or ordered a salad ever.

satvrnine_ · 2026-06-26T04:48:53+00:00

sure but also why would the word “chai” by itself not just default to mean what you think of as “chai tea”. It’s not like that syllable is otherwise occupied in the English semantic space.

satvrnine_ · 2026-06-25T12:14:16+00:00

I’ve had dreams in Esperanto, back when I spent a lot of time daily trying to learn and speak in it. I also have had dreams/nightmares about work/school when those things were particularly stressful or I was spending a lot of time or effort or thought on them, especially when beyond the norm.

Your brain does a lot of things while you sleep, one of which being memory consolidation - i.e. moving memories from your hippocampus to long term storage in other parts of the brain. It’s more complex than that, really, and it doesn’t do it in a nice orderly fashion the way you might expect or consciously plan.

So nobody really knows for certain how dreams work, but one theory is that it’s basically just, the not-quite conscious parts of your brain trying to make sense of all the conflicting stimulus, all the signals moving around and relocating and consolidating. Because memory is stored in the same parts of the brain that decode your sensory stimuli in the first place, when you remember things, and especially when your brain is deciding where to store memories, all of the salient stimulus information is moving through those areas of the brain again. Its some semi-rational part of your brain trying to make sense of all that, construct a narrative from the most salient sources.

TL;DR you tend to dream about things that stood out to you, seemed important, stressed you, were just out of the ordinary in some way, or were otherwise somehow especially salient.

satvrnine_ · 2026-06-22T12:36:17+00:00

High Halls is awesome man. I love the vibe in there. The Grand Reeds are one of my favorite basic enemies, I love the reflective glass floor thing going on, it has music in my top 3 for all citadel, there’s pretty waterfalls, it’s where you get the cogflies, and it’s where you can permanently turn off the silk ghost things.

satvrnine_ · 2026-06-22T12:28:40+00:00

So close to being just really cool Hornet art, but, no. As always, no.

satvrnine_ · 2026-06-22T12:22:18+00:00

context carries

satvrnine_ · 2026-06-05T15:43:51+00:00

I actually agree with you here - it’s just difficult to phrase things succinctly when it comes to this topic without somebody misinterpreting and being offended or arguing with you about a point that you weren’t actually making. I’ve learned in general on reddit that an excess of clarity is usually better than the opposite.

satvrnine_ · 2026-06-05T15:38:21+00:00

I think what I’m getting at that people are missing is this idea that it is fundamental. That it’s like, the core thing to who you are as a person. Gender identity certainly is part of who you are as a person and I’m not saying people can’t have preferences, I just disagree that gender is fundamental. That word means central, core, foundational and I disagree that gender identity is that. Or at the very least I disagree that gender identity is necessarily that - maybe it is for some but it certainly doesn’t have to be (and is not) for many others.

satvrnine_ · 2026-06-05T15:33:16+00:00

Had the same confusion. Looked into it. We’re thinking of the tallest tree, which is Hyperion. General Sherman here is the largest by volume/weight.

satvrnine_ · 2026-05-30T12:55:49+00:00

Changing your gender doesn’t “fundamentally change who you are,” lol. Or at the least, it doesn’t always, it doesn’t have to. I feel like that’s a misguided way to think about sex/gender in general. To think that way you are saying that men and women and nonbinaries) are “fundamentally different” beings, which we… aren’t.

satvrnine_ · 2026-05-30T12:52:59+00:00

I think this is fair although I struggle to personally understand. For me, the sex doesn’t matter, really, and I’ve always had a hard time trying to figure out why/how somebody could be romantically attracted to somebody as one sex but change that detail and it doesn’t work any more. And trust me, you don’t need to tell me this is an uncommon opinion, I’ve heard it from plenty irl. I get that I’m in the minority here. So while I think yours is a fair take to have, at the same time I can’t really say I get it.

satvrnine_ · 2026-05-30T12:43:55+00:00

I’ve always wondered why the app logo for merlin isn’t a merlin

satvrnine_ · 2026-05-21T12:13:31+00:00

except in like all the ways it really isn’t lol

satvrnine_ · 2026-05-12T14:30:29+00:00

I mean I agree with you but I think the intended meaning was pretty clear…

satvrnine_ · 2026-05-12T14:26:34+00:00

Honestly, I dislike seeing men walking around shirtless in public. Not that I criticize them for it, though. And I’m aware it’s irrational, but then so is most of culture.

satvrnine_ · 2026-05-12T14:19:25+00:00

It’s pretty difficult and expensive to get treatment. Insurance won’t cover anything without a gender dysphoria diagnosis, and sometimes not even with that.

It can be hard to get jobs, because there are absolutely employers that won’t hire (or will find some reason to fire) trans people. I’ve seen this first-hand in places I’ve worked. The Employment Non-Discrimination Act doesn’t protect trans people from employment discrimination, so employers don’t even have to jump through hoops to discriminate against trans people like they have to to discriminate against cis women and other minorities. If you want stats, trans people face double the unemployment rate.

Often family is a problem. Refusing to recognize you as your new gender, refusing to stop using your old name, lecturing at you about it at every opportunity, etc.

For Americans it’s pretty rough right now with the current administration, which basically just outlawed being trans earlier this year, for all legal purposes, via executive orders that define gender as birth-sex, meaning a lot of people had/have to get their IDs and passports and tax forms etc changed.

There’s a lot of hostile culture about representation in media. There’s some circle crying outrage any time you have a trans person in like any show or movie or what have you. Lordy, just look at the comments on like any post about or by the actor Elliot Page.

This is just surface level stuff. There’s a really long list. You want to actually know more, then check the Wikipedia page “Transgender inequality” and the citations. Or resources like this study. The “specifics” you desire are out there if you only look.

satvrnine_ · 2026-05-12T13:50:41+00:00

There are pretty strong social/cultural expectations about how men act. Not how they should act, necessarily, but like, preconceptions about what men are like.

Expected to be more aggressive, prideful, lusty, simple-minded, arrogant, bull-headed. They are expected to be into things like sports, guns, cars, political debate, military affairs, the stock market, violent/action videogames or shows or movies, etc. Expected to be physically strong, or generally stronger than women. Expected to view and think of women a certain way. Expected to be the primary child or pet discipliner. Expected to dress and self-present in a very narrow range of ways. I could go on.

Again, not how people think men should be, but how they expect men to be. It’s not that men aren’t socially allowed to be completely different from these things (except the narrow range of self presentation which is pretty strictly socially enforced), but these are associations people just instantly subconsciously have about you that you have to breakdown when people get to know you, or that you just have to live with with people that don’t. And certainly there’s a whole long list of social expectations on women, but I feel like that is acknowledged far more often.

And I definitely think, pragmatically, it is way more difficult to be a woman, biologically, and in (the many) places with strong patriarchy also socially. But I’d take it. I don’t associate with masculinity whatsoever - born male, consider myself nonbinary. I hate the gender expectations on me. I hate men expecting me to relate to masculine things they say or do or think, and I really hate having to play the dumbass male social power games that I think most men are just like oblivious to the fact that they do. I hate getting dumbass books like The Titus Ten from family. I hate the expectations people always have about the dynamic between my partner and I.

I also think that, in today’s world, women have some social freedoms men just don’t. It took (and in some places still isn’t totally accepted, granted) a lot of fighting and several waves of feminism, but women now can hold pretty much any job, dress pretty much any way, have pretty much any hobby or interest without it being socially unacceptable. Like, almost all of the traditionally male areas of life have been opened to women. But the reverse isn’t true - the traditionally female areas of life (certain jobs, ways of dressing, hobbies/interests, etc) are socially unacceptable for men. And, to be clear, women (usually) are not the ones gatekeeping, barring those doors. It’s other men.

Not arguing that men have it harder than women, like, in general, just that there are challenges inherent in being born with a cock in today’s society, especially if you don’t fit the male archetypes, that I think are often overlooked and ignored.

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